Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-04-02

Christian Johnson has been appointed post
master at Austin, vice H.. o. Bastord, re-
moved.
James Young, for several years cashier al
the City Mills al Faribault, died Wednesday
morning.
Mayor Nelson, OF Minnesota, says the pol
Icy for the coming year will be- public i'm
provements.
The saloonkeepers OF Hastings have been
. gambling.
on Monday at Window. Seventeen members
were mustered in.
The Rochester board of trade have secured
sl2 900 to establish a twine factory. They
expectto raise $4,000.
Burglars made a valuable raid on the bust.
the night Of the 18th inst.
Frank Smith, a boy ten years OF age, fell
under the 81. Paul cars at Winoua Wednesday
morning and had his left lee cut oil.
The s.. Cloud council eecinded the vote
granting e mission to erect an electric Hight
PAM W pEAAb AN'ttN'' " VI lEA ffBslNs
Mai. G. A.. Whitney, OF the governors staff,
was presented by the business men of Wadcua
with a fine sword and belt last week.
William Mclaughlin Of Rochester, a young
500 Of Thomas Mclaughlin, was killed by a
tree which he was chopplng falling on hin.
Maukato is to have a $4,000 hotel. \
h0uus Of { 90 was subscribed By the citi-
zens. Work viii be commenced on it at
once.
Richard Gibbons, a brakeman or a freight
on The Milwaukee ard st. Paul road, was
killed by being run over a: Winona, on Wed
nesday.
The $4,000 Winona school bonds were sold
on the lsth to the Winoua Deposit bank Tor
Sl0,35i, after a spirited contest with Keau Il
Co. of Chicago.
The treasury department has rendered lie.
cision refusing the appeal of J. J. Elliott Il
Co., Of Thorn qson, in regard to goods i'm
ported AT st. Vincent.
Two saloons OF Jackson viii apply FOR
license under the new $50 fee. f. }. Orr,
village recorder, refuses TO serve rather than
sign a liquor license bond.
Col. Sleeper Of Brainerd, recently installed
may or and more recently appointed Judge by
Gov. McGill, has decided to vacate the mayor
ship, and he last night rendered his resigna-
ton to the council.
Cargill Bros. propose to put in genera
stores at Jackson and Delavan and sell goods
at cost as a method OF revenge against the
business men who put in 'independont"
grain buyers in those towns.
The city Of Austin has settled the suit
brought by Mrs. Urfula l.. TopliT for dam
ages incurred by her slipping upon an icy side
walk. The amount claimed was $1,000. The
amount paid was $3.50.
There IS a lively war among the oil com
panles at Maukato with kerosene, and oil is
now retailing at 9 cents per gallon. It Is
said to be an attempt on the part Of the STAN
dard OIL company To drive other oils out Of
market.
Mrs. Ch!prericld, Of Hutchinson, is con-
Quoting a very successful revival at APPLETON.
Ninety conversions are reported thus far.
Tire meetings are held nightly in the Me,ho-
dist church, which is crowded on every occa-
sion.
Two sets Of officers qualified Tor the Offices
of Belle Plain township (Shakopeol and fled
their bonds. This is the result OF different
interpretations Of . special act Of The late
legislature.
A remarkable scene occurred in the court
room at Brainerd on Wednesday. The Dsven-
port murder ease was on trial. The jury rem
dered a verdict of not guilty. The Judge de-
nourced the prisoner from the bench as an
assassin.
The Lake City High School Debating So
c,ety has organized a house of representatives
and elected Principal Moore as speaker. who
will announce the standing committee at the
next session, when business will be com
mencedi In earnest.
Early Thursday morning Mrs. Joseph Mat
son, OF New York Mills, murd red her little
girl, one year old, by scverlng the jugular
vein with a pair Of shears. She then commit
ted suicide in the same manner. Matson
lives about six miles south Of that place and
was In town all day. On returning home he
found his wife and child both dead.
1t is understood that Dan Mahoney, ex-
foreman Of the St. Paul Dispatch, who was
charged with defraudlng that office out OF
s., 800 on ''cold dupes,' has applied to st.
Paul union for a travelling card, but that il
has not yet been issued. 1t is not unlikely
that the union will take some action concern
ing the charges against him and the dis
charged printers.
Dan Mahoney, torman Of the st. Paul Dis
patch, with two printers named F. c. Nelson
and S. Hasslet, were discharged last Satur-
day, Manager Thompson having discovered
evidence Of a system Of fraud against the in
s~titution by the above parties. AS near ss he
can reckon they have run into the concern
about &, 500 worth Of "cold dupes," thereby
receiving pay for type they did not set.
The March term OF the district court COM
menced at Brainerd to-day with Judge Stearns
on the bench. The docket is not large rnd
the term will probably not extend over a
week. The case of zsMyron Davenport
charged with manslaughter in killing young
Policy at Aitken last summer was put en-
trial. BY the middle Of the afternoon a jury
was impanelle1 and the hearing OF testimony
was commenced. Mr.. Erwin, the noted Grim
insl lawyer, defends Davenport.
Fire bugs infest Faribault.